multi-day
Exhibition: Regal Adornment, Artworks by Chelsea Bighorn
6:00 PM - 10:00 PM
This body of work delves further into my exploration of adornment in relation to the body and Native American powwow...
Past Events
multi-day
6th Annual Center for Native American and Indigenous Research Spring Symposium
8:30 AM - 4:30 PM
6th Annual Center for Native American and Indigenous Research Spring Symposium
multi-day
CNAIR Artist-in-Residence - Preserving Potawatomi Culture through Quillwork at Northwestern University
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Artist/Native: MADALENE BIG BEAR, Pokagon Band Potawatomi Nation Location: CNAIR House (Outdoor space) and Kaplan Art Studio, KRESGE 2-315 GREEN HIGHLIGHTS: OPEN...
multi-day
The 3rd Annual Carlos Montezuma Native Health Lecture - Emma Elliot | Aaron Golding
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM
The Master of Arts in Medical Humanities and Bioethics Program Presents in Co-Sponsorship With Center for Native American and Indigenous Research (CNAIR) A...
multi-day
Let's Learn Anishinaabemowin (Ojibwe Language Circle)
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
A weekly community Ojibwe language circle that began in May 2023 and met weekly in-person to share a meal and...
multi-day
Immigration and Indigeneity in the US: Changing Landscapes and Emerging Issues - A Workshop
All day
Immigration and Indigeneity Workshop, Nov 10-11 @ Guild Hall and Center for Native American and Indigenous Research (CNAIR) Dear NU Campus...
multi-day
7th Annual CAICC Urban Native Education Conference
11:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Our conference theme this year is Making Way for the Next Seven Generations. The seven generations is a concept and...
multi-day
Indigenous People Navigating Healthcare in a Dystopian Society - Beatriz O. Reyes
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM
The Master of Arts in Medical Humanities and Bioethics Program Presents in Co-Sponsorship With Center for Native American and Indigenous Research (CNAIR) Association...
multi-day
Sixth Annual Urban Native Education Conference: Water Ways of Life: Teachings, Practices, and Knowledge in Action
9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Sixth Annual Urban Native Education Conference: Water Ways of Life: Teachings, Practices, and Knowledge in Action April 21-23, 2022 Hybrid Event Hosted by the...
multi-day
Sky Hopinka: Cloudless Blue Egress of Summer
12:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Cloudless Blue Egress of Summer, a two-channel video installation by the artist Sky Hopinka (Ho-Chunk/Pechanga, born 1984, Ferndale, WA), offers...
multi-day
Sky Hopinka: Cloudless Blue Egress of Summer
12:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Cloudless Blue Egress of Summer, a two-channel video installation by the artist Sky Hopinka (Ho-Chunk/Pechanga, born 1984, Ferndale, WA), offers...
multi-day
Indigenous Reading Series
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
The Indigenous Reading Series is a new MSA program that centers Indigenous thinking and perspectives through reading and discussion. Each...
multi-day
Multiple Battlefield Cinema
8:00 AM - 8:00 PM
This workshop, entitled Battlefield Cinema, brings together filmmakers, scholars, and Indigenous Peoples whose goal is to explore how community-engaged and...
multi-day
Thinking Andean Studies Conference
8:30 AM - 6:00 PM
The Thinking Andean Studies Conference is an interdisciplinary event that showcases the increasing number of scholars conducting research in and...
multi-day
Thinking Andean Studies Conference
12:00 PM - 9:30 PM
The Thinking Andean Studies Conference is an interdisciplinary event that showcases the increasing number of scholars conducting research in and...
multi-day
Writing in the Land of Knots: Indigenous Writers in Colonial Peru
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
The European technology of alphabetic writing was introduced in Spanish America as part of the process of Catholic evangelization and...
multi-day
Skin(s) - Performance by Rosy Simas Danse
7:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Skin(s) shares the beauty and diversity of how Native people identify and examine the contradictions, pride, joy, pain, and sorrow...
multi-day
Beginning Cherokee 103
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Patrick Rochford Students will build upon the knowledge they have already gained in previous courses. Topics will include but are not...
multi-day
If You Remember, I’ll Remember
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
If You Remember, I’ll Remember is an invitation to reflect on the past while contemplating the present through works of...
Apr
11
2025
7th Annual Center for Native American and Indigenous Research Spring Symposium
8:30 AM - 4:30 PM
7th Annual Center for Native American and Indigenous Research Spring Symposium.
Apr
10
2025
7th Annual Center for Native American and Indigenous Research Symposium
8:30 AM - 4:30 PM
7th Annual Center for Native American and Indigenous Research Spring Symposium https://cnair.northwestern.edu/research-and-scholarship/research-symposium/seventh-annual-research-symposium/
Mar
6
2025
NAIS Guest Speaker Dylan Robinson
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
We are very excited to remind you of our Winter Quarter invited guest speaker, xwélmexw professor DYLAN ROBINSON, coming to...
Jan
23
2025
NAIS Grad Cluster Book Club: Placental Politics, Christine Taitano DeLisle
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
NAIS minor, NAIS Cluster students, and CNAIR Fellows are encouraged to come together this for a quarterly book club with...
Jan
16
2025
Hands-On Workshop with Chelsea Bighorn: Jingle Cone Making
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Come join us in learning how to make mini jingle cones with artist Chelsea Bighorn. In this workshop we will...
Jan
10
2025
Composer Jerod Tate (Chickasaw) Scholar Presentation and Reception
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Special Guest Scholar and Alumni presentation by composer Jerod Impichchaachaaha' Tate Presentation at 555 Clark B01 (Basement) from 3 PM -...
Jan
9
2025
Reception: Regal Adornment, Artworks by Chelsea Bighorn
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Join us for the opening reception of Chelsea Bighorn's "Regal Adornment" exhibition. Refreshments and light snacks provided. This body of work...
Dec
5
2024
Drop-in hour: Native American & Indigenous Strategic Plan
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Native American & Indigenous Affairs will be holding monthly drop-in sessions as an opportunity for any Northwestern members to ask...
Nov
20
2024
American Cultures Colloquium Research Talk -- Madeleine Reddon
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Indigenous horror is a genre of storytelling that seeks to address the effects of settler-colonialism and racial capital on Indigenous...
Nov
18
2024
Sand Creek Massacre Commemoration: Procession & Fire
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
We will walk about 0.7 miles and end at the CNAIR house at 515 Clark Street for a fire, reflection,...
Nov
12
2024
NAIS Grad Cluster Book Club: Assembled for Use by Kelly Wisecup
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
NAIS minor, NAIS Cluster students, and CNAIR Fellows are encouraged to come together this for a quarterly book club with...
Nov
12
2024
Honoring Our Partners Fall Panel: Native American & Indigenous Strategic Plan
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Join us for a panel this fall to learn about the work these panelists have been doing to support the...
Nov
11
2024
Sand Creek Massacre Commemoration: Making Activity
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
In the spirit of healing, the Native American and Indigenous Student Alliance (NAISA), Multicultural Students Affairs (MSA), and Office of...
Nov
7
2024
Drop-in hours: Native American & Indigenous Strategic Plan
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Native American & Indigenous Affairs will be holding monthly drop-in sessions as an opportunity for any Northwestern members to ask...
Nov
6
2024
Sand Creek Massacre Commemoration: Film Screen & Discussion
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
In the spirit of healing, the Native American and Indigenous Student Alliance (NAISA), Multicultural Students Affairs (MSA), Office of Institutional...
Oct
8
2024
MENA | Understanding Allied Struggles: Palestine, Turtle Island, United States
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Please join MENA for a conversation among leading scholars of violence, racial capitalism, settler colonialism, and militarism in Palestine, Turtle...
Oct
8
2024
Drop-in hours: Native American & Indigenous Strategic Plan
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Native American & Indigenous Affairs will be holding monthly drop-in sessions as an opportunity for any Northwestern members to ask...
Oct
8
2024
Artist/Elders in Residence: Welcome Breakfast!
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Join us to welcome Fern Renville and Roger Fernandes as our AY25 Artist/Elders in Residence! “Storytelling and Traditional Indigenous Artmaking” FERN RENVILLE...
Oct
2
2024
Native American & Indigenous Strategic Plan Kick-Off
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
This event is a festive opportunity to learn more about the Native American and Indigenous Strategic Plan and how individuals...
Sep
26
2024
Native American & Indigenous Welcome Reception
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
PLEASE SEE NEW TIME!!!! The Native American and Indigenous Welcome Reception, Thursday, September 26, 2024, from 4:00 – 6:00 PM at...
Sep
6
2024
Drop-in hours: Native American & Indigenous Strategic Plan
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Native American & Indigenous Affairs will be holding monthly drop-in sessions as an opportunity for any Northwestern members to ask...
Jun
7
2024
IGSC End of the Year Cook Out
3:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Indigenous Graduate Student Collective is hosting an end of the year cook out.
May
23
2024
On Decolonizing Theater Spring Program - BOUND: Screening and Q&A with Co-Director Reneltta Arluk
6:00 PM - 8:30 PM
BOUND: Screening and Q&A with Co-Director Reneltta Arluk Thursday, May 23rd, 2024 6:00 PM-8:30 PM Lutkin Hall, 700 University Pl, Evanston Alienation, deportation,...
May
23
2024
Indigenous Lead AI Technologies for Language Revitalization - Keoni Mahelona
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
School of Education and Social Policy Learning Sciences Brown Bag Speaker Series: Indigenous Lead AI Technologies for Language Revitalization Keoni Mahelona, Chief...
May
23
2024
Learning Sciences Brown Bag: Keoni Mahelona
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM
Keoni Mahelona is the visiting guest speaker for the Learning Sciences Brown Bag on Thursday, May 23. He is the...
May
9
2024
Legal Studies Law in Motion Talk with Sarah Deer - University of Kansas
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Join us on May 9, 2024, as we welcome Sarah Deer from the University of Kansas. As our keynote speaker for...
Apr
29
2024
Screening & Discussion of "The Fly Back: Restoring Territorial Rights in the Ucayali Basin" with Reynaldo Morales
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Join us for a film screening of Dr. Reynaldo Antonio Morales’ latest documentary film, The Fly Back: Restoring Territorial Rights...
Apr
27
2024
3rd Annual Traditional Spring Pow Wow- Hosted by NAISA
11:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Northwestern University Third Annual Traditional Spring Pow Wow - Hosted by the Native American and Indigenous Student Alliance ALL ARE WELCOME!!!
Apr
25
2024
Pow Wow 101 with Dave Spencer (Mississippi Chata/Diné)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
In preparation for NAISA's 3rd Annual Traditional Spring Pow Wow, the Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion is hosting a...
Apr
18
2024
CNAIR Fellows & TGS NAIS Cluster Book Club - Spring Quarter
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Spring Qtr Book Club Book: Cooling the Tropics, Hi'ilei Julia Hobart WHEN: Thursday, April 18, 530-7pm WHERE: Kaplan Conference Room [KRESGE 2-351]
Apr
13
2024
Indigenous People of Brazil with Special Guest Chief Tapi Yawalapiti
10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Join Northwestern University, The University of Chicago, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for a special event with Chief...
Apr
9
2024
LACS | Milpa Ecologies: Transgenerational Foodways in Tlaxcala, Mexico
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Lunch will be served at this event, which is co-sponsored by the Center for Native American and Indigenous Research (CNAIR)...
Apr
6
2024
POTAWATOMI CONFEDERACY PANEL DISCUSSION: LANGUAGE, CULTURE, HISTORIC PRESERVATION AND LEADERSHIP!
10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Saturday April 6th | 10am - 1pm Bodwewadmik, who live and work to strengthen the Nation in treaty removed homeland territory,...
Apr
5
2024
Afro-Indigenous Rhythms with Jonathan Alarcón!
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Learn about the Afro-Indigenous Garifuna community in Hondouras and play Garifuna rhythms in this fun, bilingual, and hands-on activity with...
Apr
3
2024
CNAIR Indigenous Artist-in-Residence: Harvesting the (Porcupine) Hide (2)
All day
Come join us to learn about traditional Potawatomi quill work, including how to harvest a porcupine hide! We are so...
Apr
2
2024
CNAIR Indigenous Artist-in-Residence: Harvesting the (Porcupine) Hide
All day
Come join us to learn about traditional Potawatomi quill work, including how to harvest a porcupine hide! We are so...
Apr
1
2024
Artist-in-Residence
All day
Come join us to learn about traditional Potawatomi quill work, including how to harvest a porcupine hide! We are so...
Feb
19
2024
Anthropology Colloquium: Kisha Supernant, University of Alberta
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
From Extraction to Restoration: Heart-centered Archaeology for Reclamation and Restorative Justice Archaeology in North America has long been associated with colonial,...
Feb
15
2024
CNAIR Fellows & TGS NAIS Cluster Book Club - Winter Quarter
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Winter Qtr Book Club Book: Hungry Listening, Dylan Robinson WHEN: Thursday, February 15, 530-7pm WHERE: Kaplan Conference Room [KRESGE 2-351]
Jan
26
2024
100 Years Back, 100 Years Forward: Sovereignty, Community and Indigenous Futures [copy]
8:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Center for Native American and Indigenous Research (CNAIR) in partnership with the Pritzker School of Law at Northwestern University is...
Jan
25
2024
100 Years Back, 100 Years Forward: Sovereignty, Community and Indigenous Futures
8:30 AM - 5:00 PM
Center for Native American and Indigenous Research (CNAIR) in partnership with the Pritzker School of Law at Northwestern University is...
Nov
14
2023
CNAIR Fellows & TGS NAIS Cluster Book Club - Fall Quarter
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Fall Qtr Book Club Book: Seeing Red, Michael Witgen WHEN: Tuesday, Nov 14, 530-7pm WHERE: Kaplan Conference Room [KRESGE 2-351]
Nov
14
2023
NAIS Book Club
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Join us for the (Native American and Indigenous Studies) NAIS Book Club (Fall AY23) and receive your FREE COPY of...
Nov
11
2023
Immigration and Indigeniety: Emerging Issues and Changing Landscapes
10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
The Indigenous Graduate Student Collective invites you to a workshop that recognizes the changing practical and policy landscapes (and their...
Nov
10
2023
Immigration and Indigeniety in the US: Changing Landscapes and Emerging Issues - A Workshop
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
The Indigenous Graduate Student Collective invites you to a workshop that recognizes the changing practical and policy landscapes (and their...
Nov
9
2023
Screening and Panel: Imagining the Indian: The Fight Against Native American Mascoting
5:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Imagining the Indian is a comprehensive examination of the movement to eradicate the words, images, and gestures that many Native...
Nov
9
2023
Nov
8
2023
Friends, Food, & Fire
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Join The Graduate School Office of Diversity and Inclusion (ODI) and The Indigenous Graduate Student Collective (IGSC) for Friends, Food,...
Nov
1
2023
CNAIR Affiliates Meeting
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Quarterly CNAIR Affiliates Meeting Please note that this is a closed meeting, only for current CNAIR affiliates Contact Michaela.Marchi@northwestern.edu
Oct
24
2023
Carbon Sovereignty: How Navajo People Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Coal
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Please join the American Politics Workshop as they host Andrew Curley, Assistant Professor in the School of Geography, Development &...
Oct
17
2023
CNAIR Brown Bag - Sovereignty, Community, and Indigenous FUTURES: 100 Year Anniversary of the 1924 Citizenship Act
12:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Please join us for our Fall Quarter Brown Bag with Dr. Bryan Brayboy (SESP Dean), CNAIR Faculty Dr. Doug Kiel...
Sep
22
2023
Native American and Indigenous Welcome Reception
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
You are invited to the 2023 Native American and Indigenous Welcome Reception on Friday, September 22, 2023 from 12:00pm –...
May
25
2023
CNAIR Brown Bag: Reynaldo Morales, Indigenous Research Methodologies and Global Indigeneity: Nexus Research for the SDGs’ Implementation
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
SAVE THE DATE and join us for the last Brown Bag in our series under the theme of "Indigenous Methodologies"! Brown...
May
22
2023
Close Encounters of the Colonial Kind - Kim Tallbear
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Close Encounters of the Colonial Kind - Kim Tallbear Co-presentend by the Science in Human Culture Program's Klopsteg Lecture Series and...
May
22
2023
Kim TallBear - "Close Encounters of the Colonial Kind"
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Speaker Kim TallBear, University of Alberta, Canada Title "Close Encounters of the Colonial Kind" Abstract Much of this talk is spoken in the voice of...
May
21
2023
Native American and Indigenous Community Celebration
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Hosted by Multicultural Student Affairs and the Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion, the Native American and Indigenous Community Celebration...
May
19
2023
5th Annual CNAIR Symposium - May 18th & 19th
8:30 AM - 12:00 PM
The 5th Annual Center for Native American and Indigenous Research (CNAIR) Research Symposium will highlight 2022-2023 CNAIR faculty and graduate...
May
18
2023
5th Annual CNAIR Symposium - May 18th & 19th
8:30 AM - 12:00 PM
The 5th Annual Center for Native American and Indigenous Research (CNAIR) Research Symposium will highlight 2022-2023 CNAIR faculty and graduate...
May
5
2023
Annual Birch Bark Canoe Launch
8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Join us on the morning of May 5 as we launch the wiigwaasi-jiimaan (birch bark canoe) Northwestern built under the...
Apr
28
2023
Virtual CNAIR Brown Bag: Dr Megan Bang, Land Back to Learning Back to Land: Education as Key to Climate Change Adaptation and Indigenous Resurgence
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Save The Date and Join us for the next Brown Bag in our series under the theme of "Indigenous Methodologies"! Brown...
Apr
26
2023
CNAIR Artist-in-Residence: A Conversation with NOELLE GARCIA
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Through a partnership between the Center for Native American and Indigenous Research and the Center for Native Futures, local Indigenous...
Apr
22
2023
2nd Annual Traditional Spring Pow Wow - Hosted by NAISA
11:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Northwestern University Second Annual Traditional Spring Pow Wow - Hosted by the Native American and Indigenous Student Alliance
Apr
11
2023
POSTPONED—Environmental, Activist, and Indigenous Energies - Nick Estes and Dallas Goldtooth
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
*4/10/23: Due to unforeseen circumstances, this 4/11 Dialogue with Nick Estes and Dallas Goldtooth is postponed. We do hope to...
Apr
6
2023
Film Screening "The Genízaro Experience: Shadows in Light"
5:00 PM - 6:45 PM
Join the Latina and Latino Studies Program for a special advanced screening of the critically acclaimed film and a discussion...
Apr
6
2023
CNAIR Guest Speaker: Dr. Stephanie Fryberg
3:45 PM - 6:15 PM
Please join us for a discussion led by special guest scholar Dr. Stephanie A. Fryberg, a member of the Tulalip...
Mar
3
2023
Brown Bag: Birchbark Books, Tribal Archives, & NAIS Methods
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Join us for the next Brown Bag in our series under the theme of "Indigenous Methodologies"! Brown Bags are open to...
Feb
15
2023
Shamanic Cinema: Trance as Resistance with Colectivo Los Ingrávidos
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
"Shamanic Cinema: Trance as Resistance" brings together six short films by the Mexican independent artist group Colectivo Los Ingrávidos which...
Feb
10
2023
CNAIR Brown Bag: Ice Worlds: Lights, Camera, Activism
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Join us for the next Brown Bag in our series under the theme of "Indigenous Methodologies"! Brown Bags are open to...
Feb
2
2023
CNAIR Guest Speaker: Dr Brian Burkhart, Prof of Philosophy, University of OK - "Thinking through the Land"
3:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Please join us for a presentation with guest speaker, Dr Brian Burkhart, Professor of Philosophy from University of Oklahoma. If you...
Dec
2
2022
CANCELLED | CNAIR Brown Bag: Indigenous Research Methodologies and Global Indigeneity: Contributions of Indigenous Peoples to the SDGs with Professor Reynaldo Cardenas
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
CNAIR Brown Bag with Professor Reynaldo Cardenas (Medill) Title: Indigenous Research Methodologies and Global Indigeneity: Contributions of Indigenous Peoples to the...
Nov
22
2022
NAIHM: Campus Walking with Relatives
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Join us for a campus walk led by a Northwestern community member. These walks will aid in building our relationships...
Nov
21
2022
NAIHM: Craft Circle
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Join us for a craft circle. A member of the Northwestern community will lead us in an art-making activity. Feel...
Nov
17
2022
Sand Creek Massacre Commemoration: Procession & Fire
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
In the spirit of healing, the Native American and Indigenous Student Alliance (NAISA), Multicultural Students Affairs (MSA), Office of Institutional...
Nov
17
2022
NAGPRA & Archaeology: A Discussion of Native American Cultural Heritage Protection and Repatriation with David Barland-Lilies
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
NAGPRA & Archaeology: A Discussion of Native American Cultural Heritage Protection and Repatriation with David Barland-Lilies After the talk, please join...
Nov
16
2022
NAIHM: Native American Summit
6:00 AM - 8:00 PM
The Chicago American Indian Community Collaborative is coordinating a trip to Springfield, IL to meet with Illinois legislators on topics...
Nov
14
2022
NAIHM: Looking 101 with The Block Museum
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Students, Staff, and Faculty are welcome to join us for a visit to The Block Museum to view the Looking...
Nov
11
2022
CNAIR Brown Bag: Indigenous Methodologies: Research in Relation with Lands and Waters, Forrest Bruce
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Join us for the next Brown Bag in our series under the theme of "Indigenous Methodologies"! Brown Bags are open to...
Nov
10
2022
Sand Creek Massacre Commemoration: Making Activity
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
This event is the second in a 3-part series commemorating the anniversary of the Sand Creek Massacre. In the spirit...
Nov
9
2022
NAIHM: Craft Circle
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Join us for a craft circle. A member of the Northwestern community will lead us in an art-making activity. Feel...
Nov
7
2022
Food, Friends, and Fire with the Indigenous Graduate Student Collective
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
This will be a space to share a meal, be in community, and reflect on the month. Bring your craft...
Nov
3
2022
Sand Creek Massacre Commemoration: Film Screening & Discussion
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
In the spirit of healing, the Native American and Indigenous Student Alliance (NAISA), Multicultural Students Affairs (MSA), Office of Institutional...
Nov
2
2022
NAIHM: Smudging & Feast
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Smudging is the practice of burning sage and/or other medicines for cleansing, purifying and healing purposes. Join us for a...
Oct
28
2022
CNAIR Brown Bag: The Apocalypse of 1862: How Dakota Ontologies Transform Historical Narratives of Dispossession by Heather Menefee
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Join us for the next Brown Bag event in our series exploring the theme Indigenous Methodologies! Each Brown Bag will feature...
Oct
14
2022
Indigenous Poetry and Periodicals: A Symposium on the Ojibwe Muzzeniegun/Literary Voyager
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
You’re warmly invited to an October 14 symposium on Indigenous Poetry and Periodicals, featuring scholars in Native American and Indigenous...
Oct
13
2022
Pathways to the Professoriate with Dr. Amanda Tachine
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Workshop for Graduate Students
Oct
12
2022
Being an Indigenous Writer: Youth Workshop with Amanda Tachine
5:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Youth Workshop with Dr. Amanda Tachine: Being an Indigenous Writer | Wednesday, Oct 12th, 5 pm - 7:30 pm We are...
Oct
12
2022
CNAIR Brown Bag: Story Rug: Weaving Stories into Research with Dr. Amanda Tachine
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
CNAIR Brown Bag Series: Indigenous Methodologies Story Rug: Weaving Stories into Research with Dr. Amanda Tachine Assistant Professor in Educational Leadership &...
Oct
12
2022
Serving Native Students Workshop with Dr. Amanda Tachine
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
This is a workshop for staff and faculty on serving Native students in higher education. For staff and faculty only.
Oct
6
2022
Navajo Justice & Peacemaking (Hosted by Center on Negotiation, Mediation, and Restorative Justice at Northwestern Law)
6:15 PM - 8:00 PM
CNAIR IS SHARING THIS EXTERNAL EVENT THAT MIGHT BE OF INTEREST TO OUR COMMUNITY Navajo Justice & Peacemaking | RSVP: http://tinyurl.com/NavajoJusticePeace Please...
Sep
29
2022
Native American and Indigenous Welcome Reception
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
You are invited to the 2022 Native American and Indigenous Welcome Reception on Thursday, September 29, 2022 from 12:00pm –...
Sep
13
2022
Native American & Indigenous Student & Family Welcome
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM
Multicultural Student Affairs invites Native American and Indigenous students and their families to meet and get to know current Native...
Aug
18
2022
Author Discussion with Levi Rickert, Journalist and Founder of Native News Online
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Author Discussion and Q&A with Journalist and Founder of Native News Online Levi Rickert (Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation) Join us on...
Jun
2
2022
Ecological Grief: Loss, Mourning, and Imagining Alternative Futures - Zoe Todd and Madhusudan Katti
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
In a 2018 article in Nature Climate Change, Ashlee Consulo and Neville Ellis used the term “ecological grief” to describe...
May
24
2022
Harvest Paint & Reflect
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Join us on Tuesday, May 24th to paint canvas tote bags and reflect on the quarter over a meal. This...
May
15
2022
Native American and Indigenous Community Dinner
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
The Native American and Indigenous Community Celebration is an annual event co-hosted by Multicultural Student Affairs and the Office of...
May
7
2022
1st Annual Traditional Spring Pow Wow: Honoring the Matriarchy
11:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Please join the Native American and Indigenous Student Alliance (NAISA) on Saturday, May 7th, 2022 at the First Annual Traditional...
May
6
2022
4th Annual CNAIR Research Symposium
10:00 AM - 3:00 PM
The 4th Annual Center for Native American and Indigenous Research (CNAIR) Research Symposium will highlight 2021-2022 CNAIR faculty and graduate...
May
5
2022
Lunch & Learn: Pow Wow 101
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Join us during the lunch hour for a virtual session to gear up for NAISA's Spring Pow Wow on Saturday,...
Apr
22
2022
Displacement and Indigeneity in the Eastern Caribbean (Melanie J. Newton, University of Toronto)
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Register to receive the Zoom link: https://bit.ly/displacement-indigeneity Please join us for this talk by Melanie J. Newton, Associate Professor in the Department...
Apr
1
2022
CNAIR's 4th Annual Research Symposium
10:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Join CNAIR for our anniual research symposium, featuring graduate and faculty fellows who will share their work from the past...
Nov
19
2021
Sand Creek Massacre Commemoration - Procession and Fire
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
In the spirit of healing, the Native American and Indigenous Student Alliance (NAISA), Multicultural Students Affairs (MSA), and Office of...
Nov
18
2021
Jolie Varela - Indigenous Women Hike
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Jolie Varela is a member of the Tule River Yokut and Paiute Nations. She is an activist for Indigenous representation...
Nov
18
2021
David CHANG lecture on indigenous history (CCHS)
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
David CHANG (University of Minnesota), author of The World and All the Things upon It: Native Hawaiian Geographies of Exploration...
Nov
10
2021
Sky Hopinka: Channeling Indigenous Histories
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
The multidimensional work of artist Sky Hopinka (Ho-Chunk Nation/Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians) employs video, photography, music, and poetry as...
Nov
9
2021
The State of Native America Panel Discussion-Native American Journalists Association-Medill Milestone Achievement Award
5:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Join us for a lively discussion about the state of Native America with the Native American Journalists Association (NAJA) and...
Nov
4
2021
Weber Lecture Fall 2021 | Professor Sheryl Lightfoot, "Indigenous Disruptions"
5:00 PM - 6:15 PM
Please join the Department of Political Science and the Center for Native American and Indigenous research at Northwestern University, as...
Oct
29
2021
Indigenous Artist-in-Residence Program: Canoe Launch Ceremony
7:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Please join us at a sunrise ceremony to launch the canoe that was constructed during CNAIR's 2021 Indigenous Artist in...
Oct
21
2021
Christine McRae Luckasavitch - Native Land Digital
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Christine McRae Luckasavitch is an Omàmìwininì Madaoueskarini Anishinaabekwe (a woman of the Madawaska River Algonquin people) and belongs to the...
Oct
21
2021
Capacious and Well-traveled Vessels: Native Canoe and Water/Sky Knowledge Revitalization for Indigenous Resurgence, Environmental Justice, and Sustainable Futures inside and outside Academia.
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Talk by Vicente M. Diaz Director, The Native Canoe Program University of Minnesota- Twin Cities Elegant and beautiful in design as they are...
Oct
12
2021
Indigenous Artist in Residence Welcome Reception
4:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Please join us at a welcome reception for CNAIR's 2021 Indigenous Artist in Residence: Wayne Valliere. Wayne Valliere /Mino-giizhig (Lac du...
Oct
5
2021
Native American and Indigenous Welcome Reception
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
You are invited to the 2021 Native American and Indigenous Welcome Reception on Tuesday, October 5, 2021 from 3:30pm –...
Oct
4
2021
THE MURA INDIGENOUS AND THEIR FIGHT TO PROTECT THE AMAZON FROM DEFORESTATION
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
The Mura indigenous people from Brazil swore to drop the last drop of their blood to protect the Amazon rainforest...
Sep
29
2021
Exhibition Keynote Conversation: Who Says, Who Shows, What Counts
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Two ways to join the online celebration! Zoom from Anywhere This keynote conversation will take place via Zoom webinar format. Join us...
May
26
2021
The Political Ecology of Native Presence, American Psyche, and John Muir
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
EDGS Graduate Lecture Series on Political Ecology Prof. Paul Robbins, Dean of the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at the University...
May
25
2021
HPA Speaker Series: Native & Indigenous Voices in Healthcare
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
HPA and MSA are thrilled to invite you to a conversation with Adrienne Schuler, an aspiring physician, and Coty Brayboy,...
May
25
2021
Bryan Brayboy on Schools, Prison, and Indigenous Youth
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Bryan McKinley Jones Brayboy (Lumbee), who studies the impact of the school-to-prison pipeline on Indigenous youth, will deliver a distinguished...
May
20
2021
CNAIR Annual Research Symposium
1:00 PM - 3:30 PM
We’ll gather to hear from our 2020-21 undergraduate, graduate, and faculty fellows and to celebrate the research they completed this...
May
14
2021
CNAIR Virtual Brownbag Discussion with Marlene Brito-Millan
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
12-1 PM | CST with Marlene Brito-Millan: Coral Reef Societies, Campesino Milpa and Complexity: Interweaving Ecology and Indigenous Lifeways towards...
May
7
2021
CNAIR Virtual Brownbag Discussion with Rose Miron and Blaire Topash-Caldwell
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Join us for a CNAIR Virtual Brownbag on May 7, 12-1 PM with Rose Miron and Blaire Topash-Caldwell, Newberry Library...
Apr
6
2021
Legacies of Inequality, Myths of Progress
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Primarily focused on economic inequality, United Nations Sustainable Development Goal #10, “Reduced Inequalities,” also aims to “empower and promote the...
Mar
16
2021
Centering Indigenous Rights and Perspectives in the Fight Against Climate Change
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
According to the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, climate change has disproportionately exacerbated many challenges global Indigenous communities...
Mar
5
2021
CNAIR Winter Brown Bag Series
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Join us for an informal, Zoom workshop of Enzo Vasquez Toral’s syllabus in progress for a spring 2021 course. We’ll discuss...
Feb
18
2021
A Conversation with Tommy Orange
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Tommy Orange is the author of the New York Times bestselling novel There There, a multi-generational, relentlessly paced story about...
Feb
16
2021
Gestural Resistance: Photographic Archives and Residual Indigeneity
4:00 PM - 5:15 PM
Lecture by Joseph M. Pierce, Associate Professor in the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literature at Stony Brook University. Photography has...
Feb
12
2021
Beyond an Isthmus: Diaspora, Aesthetics, and Post-War Identity in Central America Series
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Lecture by Arturo Arias (UC Merced). The event is co-sponsored by The Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities For more info please...
Feb
12
2021
There, There Book Club
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
The Center for Native American Research (CNAIR) and Multicultural Student Affairs (MSA) invite you to join us in reading "There,...
Feb
8
2021
There, There Book Club
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
The Center for Native American Research (CNAIR) and Multicultural Student Affairs (MSA) invite you to join us in reading "There,...
Feb
3
2021
Hodinöhsö:ni' Stories With Perry Ground
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Join Multicultural Student Affairs (MSA) as we welcome Perry Ground, an Onondaga storyteller, for an evening of fun-filled stories. Perry...
Jan
14
2021
A Conversation with Jana Schmieding
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
A Conversation with Jana Schmieding Lakota Sioux writer, performer, activist and former educator Jana Schmieding discusses her work as an Indigenous...
Dec
4
2020
CNAIR Virtual Brownbag Discussion with Michaela Kleber
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
The Center for Native American and Indigenous Research (CNAIR) is delighted to present the 2020 Brown Bag Series. These talks...
Nov
13
2020
Indigenous Interventions: Reshaping Archives and Museums
All day
November 13, Indigenous Interventions: Reshaping Archives and Museums: all day symposium hosted by CNAIR, the Field Museum, and the Newberry,...
Nov
6
2020
Guest Speaker Seminar: Dr. Cristina Eisenberg
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
PBC is pleased to welcome Dr. Cristina Eisenberg to present their research to the community. https://www.cristinaeisenberg.com/ Seeds of Success: Fort Belknap Indian...
Nov
5
2020
What does it mean to come from somewhere? - Films by Fox Maxy
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
This program of short films by the California-based artist Fox Maxy (Ipai Kumeyaay and Payómkawichum) offers a prismatic and timely...
Oct
30
2020
CNAIR Virtual Brownbag Discussion with Doug Kiel
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
The Center for Native American and Indigenous Research (CNAIR) is delighted to present the 2020 Brown Bag Series. These talks...
Oct
15
2020
Tiara Roxanne and Risa Puleo to Creative/Critical Studies
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
The CoVid-19: Critical/Creative Studies in Music, Image, and Text virtual seminar series continues with a performance featuring the indigenous cyberfeminst,...
Oct
9
2020
CNAIR Virtual Brownbag Discussion with Caroline Egan
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
The Center for Native American and Indigenous Research (CNAIR) is delighted to present the 2020 Brown Bag Series. These talks...
Oct
7
2020
Racial Disparity in Arrests Increases as Crime Rates Decline
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Between 1999 and 2015, while crime rates generally declined, racial disparity in arrests increased substantially. Sociology Professor Beth Redbird and...
Sep
25
2020
Native American and Indigenous Welcome Reception
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Meet new faculty, staff, and students and hear about upcoming initiatives. Drop in at any time between 12-1:30pm via Zoom!...
Jun
14
2020
Virtual Native American and Indigenous Community Celebration
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Hosted by Multicultural Student Affairs, the Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion, and the Center for Native American and Indigenous...
May
29
2020
CNAIR 2019-2020 Symposium
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
CNAIR 2019-2020 Fellows Virtual Research Talks Friday, May 29, 12-1:30 PM Please join CNAIR for virtual research talks by our faculty, graduate,...
Apr
23
2020
Tommy Orange Book Discussion and Signing
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
EVENT POSTPONED details to follow soon April 23, 2020 Doors Open 5:30 pm Event Start 6:30 pm Book Signing 7:30 pm RSVP and ticketing: https://tinyurl.com/vyna3fb SIgn-up for...
Mar
4
2020
Decolonizing Healthcare
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Decolonizing Healthcare: An Indigenous perspective on affirming healthcare for Two Spirit and Transgender communities Description: Culturally informed and affirming healthcare is...
Mar
4
2020
Ceremony: A place for gender, sexuality and indigeneity
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Ceremony plays a vital role in Native communities. Yet, barriers regarding gender or sexuality exclude community members from being able...
Mar
3
2020
Lecture on Native American literature by Michael Kelly (CCHS/University Libraries/CNAIR)
4:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Joint CCHS/University Libraries annual Lecture on the History of the Book—with the collaboration of CNAIR (Center for Native American and...
Feb
18
2020
Open the Door: Memory, Mourning, and the Ancestor as Foundation - M. Carmen Lane and Michael Rakowitz
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Open The Door: Memory, Mourning and The Ancestor As Foundation Click here for EventBrite link. Click here for Facebook event. February 18, 2020...
Feb
18
2020
Food Sovereignty and the Oneida White Corn Project
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
CNAIR Winter Keynote Food Sovereignty and the Oneida White Corn Project with Becky M. Webster and Laura Manthe from the Oneida...
Feb
7
2020
Guest Speaker Toni Jensen -- Carry: Land Theft, Gun Violence, and Indigenous People's Lives
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
A reading and talk abou the ties between land ownership or loss and the violence against Indegenous people, both past...
Feb
6
2020
More to say: Tribal voices in the 2020 election.
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Lecture given by Mark Trahant, Editor of Indian Country Today and NAJA/Medill Milestone Achievement Award receipient. Trahant, a member of the...
Feb
6
2020
"Reanimation, Metamorphosis, Kinship: New Archives of Romanticism" - A Roundtable Discussion
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
PROVINCIALIZING ROMANTICISM: A Yearlong Series at Northwestern "Reanimation, Metamorphosis, Kinship: New Archives of Romanticism" A roundtable on Black and Indigenous literatures of...
Jan
29
2020
IPR/CNAIR Joint Seminar: B. Redbird (Sociology) - What Drives Native American Poverty?
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
"What Drives Native American Poverty?" by Beth Redbird, Assistant Professor of Sociology; IPR Fellow; and CNAIR Fellow (2019-20) Reception following. IPR and Center...
Jan
16
2020
Department of Sociology Colloquium: Carolyn Liebler, University of Minnesota
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Professor Carolyn Liebler presents: Counting America's First Peoples
Dec
5
2019
Harvest Indigenous Discussions
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Join MSA for our monthly dinner and discussion series on topics important to Indian Country and the Northwestern Native and...
Nov
26
2019
Campus Nature Walk
9:00 AM - 9:45 AM
Join us once a week for a campus walk led by a Northwestern community member. These walks will aid in...
Nov
25
2019
Smudging Ceremony
12:15 PM - 12:45 PM
Smudging is the practice of burning sage and/or other medicines for cleansing, purifying and healing purposes. Join us once a...
Nov
22
2019
NAHM: Craft Circle
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Bring your lunch and creative energy and join us for weekly craft circles. Each week, a member of the Northwestern...
Nov
20
2019
Smudging Ceremony
12:15 PM - 12:45 PM
Smudging is the practice of burning sage and/or other medicines for cleansing, purifying and healing purposes. Join us once a...
Nov
19
2019
NAHM: Campus Nature Walk
9:00 AM - 9:45 PM
Join us once a week for a campus walk led by a Northwestern community member. These walks will aid in...
Nov
18
2019
Jean O'Brien and Thomas Stubblefield: Monuments of Omission—Erasure in the Memory Work of Indigenous Cultures and Contemporary Media
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Fall keynote of the Kaplan Humanities Institute's Memorializing Dialogue: Monuments of Omission: Erasure in the Memory Work of Indigenous Cultures and Contemporary...
Nov
16
2019
Sand Creek Commemoration
10:30 AM - 1:30 PM
In the spirit of healing, the Native American and Indigenous Student Alliance (NAISA) has invited representative descendants of the Northern...
Nov
15
2019
NAHM: Craft Circle
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Bring your lunch and creative energy and join us for weekly craft circles. Each week, a member of the Northwestern...
Nov
14
2019
Harvest Indigenous Discussions
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Join MSA for our monthly dinner and discussion series on topics important to Indian Country and the Northwestern Native and...
Nov
13
2019
Smudging Ceremony
12:15 PM - 12:45 PM
Smudging is the practice of burning sage and/or other medicines for cleansing, purifying and healing purposes. Join us once a...
Nov
12
2019
Campus Nature Walk
9:00 AM - 9:45 AM
Join us once a week for a campus walk led by a Northwestern community member. These walks will aid in...
Nov
8
2019
NAHM: Craft Circle
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Bring your lunch and creative energy and join us for weekly craft circles. Each week, a member of the Northwestern...
Nov
7
2019
Lunch and Learn: IRRPP Report on Native American Chicagoans
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Join us for a discussion about the Adversity and Resiliency for Chicago’s First: The State of Racial Justice for American...
Nov
5
2019
Postcard to the 7th Generation
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
What are you doing to prepare the world for future generations? It is common among some Native Americans to consider...
Nov
4
2019
Smudging Ceremony
12:15 PM - 12:45 PM
Smudging is the practice of burning sage and/or other medicines for cleansing, purifying and healing purposes. Join us once a...
Oct
31
2019
Indigenous Lecture & Writing Series
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Thursday, October 31, 2019 1:00 - 2:30 PM Northwestern University Rebecca Crown Center- Hardin Hall 633 Clark St- West Tower, Evanston Please join us for...
Oct
25
2019
Archaeology and Its Avatars: Andean Cultures and Histories Symposium (Day Two)
9:00 AM - 4:15 PM
What meanings has archaeology assumed in cultural and critical theory? What has been its role as a metaphor and also...
Oct
24
2019
Archaeology and Its Avatars: Andean Cultures and Histories Symposium (Day One)
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
What meanings has archaeology assumed in cultural and critical theory? What has been its role as a metaphor and also...
Oct
17
2019
Dylan AT Miner: This Land is Always
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
This Land is Always Co-presented with Art History, the Center for Native American and Indigenous Research, Northwestern University Native American and...
Oct
14
2019
Indigenous Tour of Northwestern
8:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day (October 14, 2019) by learning about Native people, places, and initiatives that connect to Northwestern University:...
Sep
27
2019
Native American and Indigenous Welcome Back Lunch
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Come meet new students, faculty, and staff and hear about upcoming initiatives for the year. Lunch and giveaways.
Sep
16
2019
Native & Indigenous Family Reception
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
A welcome reception for Native & Indigenous Families.
May
17
2019
CNAIR's 1st Annual Research Symposium
12:00 PM - 6:00 PM
The Center for Native American and Indigenous Research is proud to announce it’s first annual research symposium. The symposium will...
May
14
2019
Layli Long Soldier - 2019 Spring Writers' Festival Reading
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Layli Long Soldier earned a BFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts and an MFA with honors from Bard...
May
13
2019
Birds & Breakfast
8:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Each year thousands of migratory birds travel to & through Chicago along the coast of Lake Michigan. During Spring migration,...
May
6
2019
Re/mapping Indigenous and Afro-descendent Geographies in the Americas: A Conversation about Collaborative Cartography
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Re/mapping Indigenous and Afro-descendent Geographies in the Americas: A Conversation about Collaborative Cartography Panel discussion with: Andrew Britt, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in...
Apr
23
2019
Elizabeth Hoover - Defining and Enacting Food Sovereignty Through Native American Farming and Gardening Projects
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Click here for Facebook event. This talk is co-sponsored by the Center for Native American and Indigenous Research as part of...
Apr
11
2019
Kantrowitz lecture on indigenous Civil War era history (CCHS)
12:15 PM - 2:00 PM
Stephen KANTROWITZ (University of Wisconsin), author of More than Freedom: Fighting for Black Citizenship in a White Republic (2013) on...
Apr
4
2019
Digital Reporting in Indigenous Communities
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
The Northwestern University community is invited to an open forum panel discussion that will prepare journalists for working in Indigenous...
Mar
11
2019
Native Politics
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
A conversation facilitated by Daviree Velazquez Phillip and Aaron Golding to celebrate Rep. Deb Haaland, Rep. Sharice Davids, Gertrude Bonnin,...
Feb
27
2019
Walking as Witness
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
JeeYeun Lee uses performance, research, and socially engaged art to bring our attention to the ways that histories of place...
Feb
15
2019
Panel on Native Activism and Art in Chicago
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Panel on Native Activism and Art in Chicago Native Chicago Art & Activism from Carlos Montezuma to Susan PowerA Discussion with...
Feb
13
2019
Collectors and Researchers: The Library & Indigenous Studies Explorations
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
This showcase and reception will highlight librarians’ research efforts that have recently explored topics in indigenous studies. It will also...
Feb
8
2019
Béture Collective: Kayapó Filmmaking in the Amazon With Simone Giovine and Bepkadjoiti Kayapó
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Béture Collective: Kayapó Filmmaking in the AmazonWith Simone Giovine and Bepkadjoiti Kayapó Simone Giovine (Filmmaker and co-founder of the Kayapó...
Dec
7
2018
Native Literature and Arts Holiday Celebration with Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. Author of Sacred Smokes
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Join us for the Native Literature and Arts Holiday Celebration, which will take place on Friday, December 7, 2018, from...
Dec
1
2018
Artist Talk with Levi Rickert: Standing Rock: Photographs of an Indigenous Movement
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Hosted by the Evanston Library Saturday, December 1st @ 3 pm Falcon Room, Evanston Public Library Standing Rock: Photographs of an Indigenous...
Nov
29
2018
Sovereignty Symposium
5:15 PM - 7:00 PM
Sovereignty SymposiumCo-hosted with the Center for Native American and Indigenous Research, the Kaplan Institute for the Humanities’ Dialogues on Security...
Nov
2
2018
"Resistance and Resilience in the Native Northeast: New Approaches to Memory, History-Making, and Decolonization" - with Christine DeLucia (Williams College)
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Christine DeLucia is an assistant professor of History at Williams College and the author of, Memory Lands: King Philip’s War...
Oct
8
2018
Indigenous Peoples' Day Film Screening and Discussion
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
The Center for Native American and Indigenous Research will be hosting the screening of the film The Eagle and The...
Sep
28
2018
Native American and Indigenous Welcome Back Reception
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Come meet new faculty, staff and students and hear about upcoming initiatives for the new academic year! Lunch Giveaways
May
24
2018
“The Story of Act 31: How Native History Came to Wisconsin Classrooms” with J P Leary (University of Wisconsin-Green Bay)
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
J P Leary is an associate professor of humanities, First Nations studies, and history at the University of Wisconsin– Green...
May
15
2018
"Instead of Redface: from the Stage to the Supreme Court" with Mary Kathryn Nagle
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Mary Kathryn Nagle is an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation. She currently serves as the Executive Director of the...
May
6
2018
Native American and Indigenous Community Dinner
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Join us for our annual event celebrating the accomplishments of Northwestern students, faculty, and staff around Native American and Indigenous...
May
5
2018
CAICC Urban Native Education Conference
9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
THEME: Identity, Kinship, and Belonging This conference will facilitate the exchange of strategies, tools an research among Native American education in...
May
4
2018
Pacific Island Studies Now Symposium
8:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Featuring: Vicente Diaz (Univ of Minnesota), Christina DeLisle (Univ. of Minnesota), and Hokulani Aikau (Univ. of Utah). Northwestern scholars include:...
Apr
17
2018
"Is There Justice in the Courts of the Conqueror? Maybe - the Case of the United States and Native Americans" - Fred Hoxie
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Frederick E. Hoxie is Swanlund Professor Emeritus of History, Law, and American Indian Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign....
Mar
9
2018
Kayapó Filmmakers in a Digital Age: Rights, Conservation and Heritage
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Film screening with Q & A with film makers Pat-i Kayapó is a filmmaker from the Kayapó village of A’ukre. He...
Mar
1
2018
Speaker Thomas Andrews of the University of Colorado
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
The Environmental Policy and Culture Program along with Alice Kaplan Institute's Environmental Humanities Workshop hosts Thomas Andrews, author of the...
Feb
23
2018
"This Land is Your Land? Indigenous Autonomy and Governance" with Stacy Leeds
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
The Colloquium of Indigeneity and Native American Studies (CINAS) is proud to announce: This Land is Your Land? Indigenous Autonomy and...
Feb
20
2018
Public Lecture: A Decolonial Guidebook to Hawaii
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Featuring: Vernadette Gonzalez, Honors Program Director, Associate Professor of American Studies, University of Hawai'i, Manoa; Associate Editor of American Quarterly.
Feb
20
2018
American Quarterly Publishing Workshop
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Presented by Vernadette Gonzalez, Honors Program Director, Assoc. Professor of American Studies, University of Hawai'i, Manoa. Associate Editor of American...
Jan
22
2018
Anthro and CNAIR Colloquium: Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits, Chip Colwell (Denver Museum) and William Quackenbush (Ho-Chunk Nation)
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Talk: Chip Colwell, Senior Curator of Anthropology, Denver Museum of Nature & ScienceFeatured Respondent: William Quackenbush, Tribal Historic Preservation Officer,...
Jan
17
2018
Moore Lecture: Natalie Diaz
5:15 PM - 6:45 PM
Natalie Diaz was born in the Fort Mojave Indian Village in Needles, California. She is Mojave and an enrolled member...
Nov
29
2017
Indigenous Artists in Collaboration: A Conversation
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Join the Block Museum for a conversation with four contemporary Native women artists exploring collaborative practices that unite artists, community...
Nov
16
2017
Heid E. Erdrich Reading: Curator of Ephemera at the New Museum for Archaic Media
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Heid E. Erdrich is a poet, writer, and filmmaker. She is the author of five books of poetry, most recently...
Nov
15
2017
An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe - Benjamin Madley
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Between 1846 and 1873, California's Indian population plunged from perhaps 150,000 to 30,000. Benjamin Madley uncovers the full extent of...
Nov
3
2017
YoNasDa Lonewolf
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Come meet Queen YoNasDa (Black and Oglala Lakota) as she shares how her identity intersects with her involvement in activism...
Nov
1
2017
Cultural Survival and Land Dispossession: A Photographic Essay on The Sioux and the Embera Peoples of North and South America
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
The Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program and the Center for Native American and Indigenous Research (CNAIR) are proud to...
Oct
31
2017
“Returning the Gift, Singing the Trans-Indigenous, and the Making of Global Indigenous Studies.” - Chad Allen
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Chad Allen from the University of Washington, will present “Returning the Gift, Singing the Trans-Indigenous, and the Making of Global...
Oct
31
2017
Workshop on Indigenous Poetry and Poetics - Chad Allen
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Chad Allen from the University of Washington, will host a workshop on Indigenous Poetry and Poetics. Please contact the Kelly...
Oct
30
2017
Workshop on Academic Publishing - Chad Allen
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Chad Allen from the University of Washington, will host a workshop on academic publishing. Co-presented by Center for Native American and...
Oct
17
2017
“Power Lines: How the Navajo Nation’s Energy Built the Sunbelt” - Andrew Needham
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Andrew Needham from New York University, will present “Power Lines: How the Navajo Nation’s Energy Built the Sunbelt.”
Oct
12
2017
Life Is What You Make It: A Concert & Conversation with Peter Buffett
7:00 PM - 8:15 PM
Peter Buffett is an Emmy Award–winning musician, composer, philanthropist, and author. He has received critical acclaim for his Native American-inspired...
Oct
9
2017
Indigenous Peoples' Day
All day
Northwestern University is co-sponsoring events for Indigenous Peoples’ Day, October 9th, along with Evanston’s Mitchell Museum of the American Indian...
Oct
6
2017
Global Indigenous Studies Working Group (Buffett Institute)
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
The Global Indigenous Studies Working Group is an interdisciplinary group that shares an interest in studying and engaging Indigenous peoples...
Sep
28
2017
Making Relations in the "House of Difference" - Lisa Hall
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Lisa Hall from Wells College, will present "Making Relations in the House of Difference." Co-presented by Center for Native American and Indigenous...
Jun
1
2017
Chicago Native American Oral History Project Reception
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
The D'Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian & Indigenous Studies will host a public reception to honor Chicago-area Native Americans...
May
11
2017
Native American Urban Mental Health Panel
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
The majority of Native Americans live in urban areas and are one of the most medically underserved communities. Panelists include...
May
7
2017
The 3rd Annual Native American and Indigenous Community Dinner
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
The Native American Community Dinner is an end of the year gathering where we recognize the work that has been...
Apr
26
2017
Reparation in the Native American and Japanese American Context - Panel Discussion
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Artist Kristine Aono, whose work is featured in the Block Museum of Art's exhibition, If You Remember, I'll Remember, will...
Apr
22
2017
Earth Day Water Talks
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Learn about water and the role it plays in our lives. From holding cultural and spiritual importance to being the...
Apr
22
2017
Earth Day at Northwestern: Water Research & Indigenous Science
1:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Learn about water and the roles it plays in our lives. From holding cultural and spiritual importance to being the...
Apr
20
2017
Marie Watt: Sewing Community
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
This winter, community members from Northwestern, Evanston, and beyond joined together with artist Marie Watt to lend their hands to...
Apr
18
2017
Guest Speaker: We Come to Witness: Art as Politics for Indigenous Rights in Canada
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Please join us for a talk on "We Come to Witness: Art as Politics for Indigenous Rights in Canada" by...
Apr
12
2017
Josie Saldaña, Indian Given: Adjudicating Shades of Brown in the US Southwest
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
María Josefina Saldaña Portillo is a Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University. Indian Given: Racial Geographies...
Apr
6
2017
Mele Murals - Screening and Q&A with Tadashi Nakamura
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Mele Murals is a documentary about the transformative power of art through the unlikely union of graffiti and ancient Hawaiian...
Apr
5
2017
Unthinkable Indians: Garcilaso, Guaman Poma and the Beginnings of Critical Race Theory
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Prof. Gonzalo Lamana (University of Pittsburgh) offers an alternative interpretation of how the two most important Amerindian colonial thinkers conceived...
Apr
1
2017
CAICC Urban American Indian Education Conference
9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Urban American Indian Education: Past, Present and Future This conference will facilitate the exchange of strategies, tools and research among Native...
Mar
31
2017
Toni Jensen: Cowboyistan: The Social Costs of Fracking
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Toni Jensen (Metis; English/University of Arkansas), author of the short story collection From the Hilltop, published through the Native Storiers...
Mar
9
2017
Navajo Rock Talk & Video Show: Stories of Environmental Justice (Chicago)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
RSVP Appreciated Highlighting work by scientist Tommy Rock & filmmaker Jeff Spitz. This event will take place twice: March 8 (in...
Mar
8
2017
Navajo Rock Talk & Video Show: Stories of Environmental Justice (Evanston)
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
RSVP Appreciated Highlighting work by scientist Tommy Rock & filmmaker Jeff Spitz. This event will take place twice: March 8 (in...
Mar
3
2017
“The Transformative Potential of Indigenous Rights and Politics” with Dr. Sheryl Lightfoot
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
In this talk, Dr. Lightfoot will discuss how Indigenous peoples’ rights and Indigenous rights movements represent an important and often...
Feb
23
2017
Environmental Resource Panel & Reception
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Featuring Arlinda Locklear and Heather Kendall-Miller. From the Dakota Access Pipeline to the expansion of crude oil shipping in Gray’s Harbor...
Feb
23
2017
Environmental Law Lunch Panel
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
Come and learn from Arlinda Locklear (Lumbee) and Heather Kendall-Miller (Athabascan).Their experience includes the historic Katie John litigation ensuring subsistence...
Feb
21
2017
Water Politics: From Standing Rock to Palestine
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Join the Native American and Indigenous Students Alliance and Students for Justice in Palestine for a discussion with Krystal Two...
Feb
15
2017
Painting Workshop with Steven Paul Judd
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Steven Paul Judd is a Kiowa and Choctaw filmmaker, writer, and painter. He is a master at combining Native experiences...
Feb
14
2017
Visiting Artist Lecture: Duane Linklater
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Duane Linklater is Omaskêko Cree, from Moose Cree First Nation in Northern Ontario and is currently based in North Bay,...
Feb
8
2017
Equity Sewing Circle with Artist Marie Watt
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Seneca artist Marie Watt, whose work is featured in an upcoming exhibition at the Block Museum, makes many of her...
Feb
7
2017
NoDAPL and the Future of Indigenous Organizing
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Since the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe set up camp in resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL), it has been...
Feb
4
2017
Opening Day: If You Remember, I'll Remember - Sewing Kick-Off
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Exhibition Sewing Kick-Off, 10:00am–12:00pm The exhibition If You Remember, I’ll Remember is an invitation to think about the present while reflecting...
Feb
2
2017
Journey Through an Indigenous Archive – Robert Sullivan
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
In Aotearoa New Zealand, urbanisation and colonisation have altered traditional access to Mātauranga Māori knowledge, which is now handed down...
Jan
30
2017
SHC Klopsteg Lecture: KELLY WISECUP
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
KELLY WISECUP: English, Northwestern University "Indigenizing Botany: Colonial Science and Mohegan Medicine in Eighteenth-Century North America" Description: Colony botany and colonial expansion...
Jan
26
2017
Matika Wilbur: 19 Lessons from Indian Roads
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Since 2012, Swinomish and Tulalip photographer Matika Wilbur has been seeking to photograph the citizens of every federally recognized tribe...
Dec
1
2016
Miranda Johnson: An Indigenous Commonwealth? Rights, Courts, and the Dialogics of Settler Colonialism
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
An Indigenous Commonwealth? Rights, Courts, and the Dialogics of Settler Colonialism Dr. Johnson's work engages questions of indigenous historical agency, identity,...
Nov
21
2016
Opening Reception of 'Walking through Sand Creek', Norris Galleria
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
The Northwestern Native American and Indigenous Student Alliance curated 'Walking through Sand Creek' for the Norris Galleria on the ground...
Nov
19
2016
Sand Creek Massacre Commemoration
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Join NAISA and the Chicago community in a reception honoring the Cheyenne and Arapaho lives lost on November 29, 1864.
Nov
18
2016
Storytelling for Healing Workshop
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
This is an event designed to precede the Sand Creek Massacre Commemoration on Nov. 19 at 12:00pm in the Guild...
Nov
17
2016
Protect the Sacred: An Evaluation of Domestic Violence and Human Trafficking among Indigenous Populations
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
This event will feature Dr. Jessica Ryan of American Indian Health Service Chicago and is a chance to learn more...
Nov
16
2016
Two-Spirit Workshop with Ty Defoe: Return to the Circle
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Learn about the significance of Native American & Indigenous two-spirit identity as it relates to gender through a series of...
Nov
11
2016
UIC Native American Veteran's Powwow
5:00 PM - 9:00 PM
The annual Native American Student Organization at UIC powwow. Free and open to everyone!
Nov
10
2016
Winona LaDuke, The D’Arcy McNickle Distinguished Lecture
5:30 PM - 8:00 PM
The D’Arcy McNickle Distinguished Lecture will honor American Indian author, environmental activist, and former U.S. vice presidential nominee, Winona LaDuke...
Nov
9
2016
Native American & Indigenous Art Gallery Viewing
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
View a variety of Native American and Indigenous artwork around campus compiled in one place. Refreshments will be served!
Nov
7
2016
First Nations Film and Video Festival
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
First Nations Film and Video Festival, Inc. is a grassroots Native American film festival whose mission is showcasing works produced...
Nov
2
2016
Annual Montezuma Lecture at Mitchell Museum of the American Indian
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
This year ’s Montezuma Lecture will honor Susan Shown Harjo. Harjo is the founding president of The Morning Star Institute...
Nov
2
2016
UIC Indigenous Art Collective of Chicago Opening Reception
3:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Featuring artists Chris Pappan, Tomás Karmelo Amaya, Monica Rickert-Bolter, Santiago X, Sings in the Timber, Debra Yepa-Pappan. Sponsored by the...
Oct
27
2016
Historical Debts: Trauma, Memory, and Decolonization Panel
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
This interdisciplinary panel brings together scholars whose work raises questions of memory and memorialization in contexts of colonialism to ask...
Oct
25
2016
“Copyright, Knowledge and Intercultural Translation Practices: Science and Indigenous Knowledge in Contemporary Brazil”
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
DIEGO SOARES DA SILVEIRA is a professor at the Institute of Social Sciences of the Federal University of Uberlândia. Between...
Oct
23
2016
Indigenous Science Days
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Indigenous Science Days is a community program that focus on culturally based science. The activities take place at multiple places...
Oct
10
2016
Indigenous Peoples' Day Concert
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
A variety of programming will occur on Indigenous Peoples' Day, inlcuding a concert by Scatter Their Own. Scatter Their Own...
Oct
10
2016
#NODAPL Rally
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
This is part of the the Indigenous Peoples' Day programming at Northwestern University. Students from the Native American and Indigenous...
Oct
10
2016
Indigenous Peoples' Day Panel
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Learn about the history, cultures & political issues of Indigenous Peoples throughout North American. Featuring Scotti Clifford, musician and educator,...
Oct
1
2016
Indians in the Archive Symposium
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
“Indians in the Archive: Images of the Midwest” will feature speakers including Dave Beck (Montana); Rosalyn LaPier (Montana); Philip Round...
Sep
23
2016
American Indian Day - Storytelling Around Water
4:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Against the backdrop of beautiful Lake Michigan, listen to traditional Native American tales centering on water and its significance to...
Sep
23
2016
Native American First Year Student Welcome
12:00 AM - 1:30 PM
Join MSA in welcoming incoming Native American first year and transfer students to the Northwestern community. Refreshments & Giveaways!
Sep
18
2016
Chicago Annual Powwow Trip
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Hosted by the American Indian Center of Chicago, the Chicago Annual Powwow is a celebration of Native culture from the...